The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-05
CURRENT TOPICS.

MRS. CLEVELAND receives daily mos'
voluminous mail.
KNEE brooches are becoming popular on
the Eastern coast.
THERE are now less than zoe, 600 slaves Ia
the Empire of Brazil.
THE total production Of coffee in the
world Is about 100000 tons.
THE festivities of the Emperor Of China't
wedding will cost $5,000,0O0.
TWENTY divorces were recently granted
in one day by a Georgia court.
MORE than 1900 persons in New York
make living by street music.
Six election crooks have been sentenced
to the penitentiary from Baltimore.
IT Is said that no relative, however dis
tant, OF the poet Moore is now living.
The Sunday-school membership OF the
world numbers nearly twenty millions.
THE Weekly Courdnt, of Hartford, Ct, is
the Oldest newspaper in this country,
having had an uninterrupted career since
1854.
THE breeches Of our fathers are being
talked of again as one Of the reforms in
dress.
SWITZERLAND consumes more liquor per
capita than any other country on the
globe.
THERE is an alarming increase Of diph-
iberia in the tenement-house district OF
New York. Children are the greatest suf-
ferers.
GEO. M. PULLMAN, the palace car poten-
tate, will visit Italy next month, and, it is
said, will be created a Duke by King
Humbert.
AN Indian woman named Shaw has pat
ented dust pan, on which she is making
"a fortune.
QUEEN NATALIE, a Bucharest dispatch
says, returns her royal husbands letters
unopened, and will consult the Car about
a divorce.
QUEEN VICTORIA paid 100000 expenses
of entertaining her royal guests during
the jubilee.
TYPE-wRITINd is not rated as printed
matter by the German and Swedish postal
authorities.
The Fourth OF July was more general.
observed throughout the country than for
many years.
A FALL Of two feet, from his porch TO
the ground, broke the neck of resident
Of Bridgeville, Del.
THERE is q French company that has or,
gained for the purpose of breeding Ara
bian horses in Dakota.
HEREAFTER bank bearing the name OF
Fidelity" will be looked upon with sew
eral grains of infidelity
The statistics show that Philadelphia
has s,OS4 saloons, but only 400 Americans
engaged in the business.
The Philadelphia Item says: "Cucum-
Der, college graduates and other green
things are now plentiful"
THE only millionaire OF African lineage
In this country is Ionic Lafon, a French
quadroon, of New Orleans.
THE colored soldiers reunion, combining
Ohio Indiana and Kentucky, will be held
In Louisville, KY, July 70.
SOME Boston fiend has invented fire
cracker that far exceeds in noise any
thing Of the kind ever made.
Ex-EMPREss EUGENE, of France, has APP
piled to the City of Naples for the position
Of nurse in one Of its hospitals.
ONE hundred and sixty millions OF
Northern capital has sought investment in
the South within the past year.
Now Utah Is clamoring to get into the
Union. Dakota, Washington, Montana
and wyoming are in the same fix.
AT one ii me Mount Vesuvius was silent
Tor nearly fifteen centuries. And yet wo
speak Of Vesuvius in the femme gender.
THE Fort Worth CTex.) Gozette says Gin
cinnati bank robbers wear better clothes
than Texas train robbers but their princi-
pies are the same.
Wilcox County, Ca, has fifteen hale
and hearty male citizens who have passed
the age Of four score and ten. Micajah
Owens, ninety-seven years old, heads the
list.
CHARLESTON, y. c., has been celebrating
the one hundred and eleventh anniver-
sary Of the battle Of Fort Moultrie, where
certain Americans and Britishers were
engaged.
THE president OF the college at Princeton
has for years striven to have it changed
to the university plan and has this year
succeeded. Hereafter it will be known as
the Princeton University.
He didn't-know-it-was-loa loaded is coming
in from all sections of the country. The
crop promises to be unusually large. III
few Of them were hanged for murder 1t
might be warning to others.
In England, swells who wish to be con-
sidered conservative" now fold their
letters, address them on the back Of the
sheet and seal them with wax as their
grandfathers did fifty years ago.
The girls in a western coeducational
college are said to haze good looking fresh
men by blindfolding and kissing them. 1t
must be that the trustees have put up this
job TO draw students TO their institution.
TIE price for license TO sell liquor In
Bushnell, H., Is $4,000, and yet six saloon
men have applied for licenses. This rep
resents about tia apiece from every man,
woman and child In the town.
THosE Goulds are wonderful people says
the Atlanta Constitution. Little Eddie, who